Malcolm X Learning To Read Summary

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Malcolm X’s "Learning to Read" truncated version focus more on the story of how Malcolm X learned to read while in jail. It relays his message of his new found love of books and just skims the surface of what he actually read. It is a good reading for high school and early college students because it has a good story line; a illiterate black prisoner learns to read. It can be used as an inspiration for young readers and shows that not every person was well educated like they are today.

The original, longer version of his writing goes into more depth about what exactly he read about. Some parts of the longer version are left out because they are too extreme or too political to talk about in school. The topics of sex, evolution of the color

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